Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
purulence .
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- noun rare
purulence
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- noun symptom of being purulent (containing or forming pus)
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Examples
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There was a purulency, that nothing could check or overcome, that hovered over the rows of beds and emptied them.
The Downfall ��mile Zola 1871
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